Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 17:18:07 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc Message-ID: <20050607171603.B12750@www.pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <200506071529.47798.ben@spooty.net> References: <200506071529.47798.ben@spooty.net>
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On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Ben Paley wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running 5.4 on my shiny new dell inspiron 6000 - there are a few things > yet to sort out, and one of them is X. Amazing. In winxp it runs at 1280x800, > 16bit (I think, or 24? can't remember off-hand, i'd be happy with 8 for the > moment!). And it seems I need the i810 Generic driver from xorg. You might need agp_load="YES" in your /boot/loader.conf . See also http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html (Section 5.4.3.1). Regards, Uli. > > At the moment, I'm working with no xorg.conf at all! I get 800x600, not sure > of colour depth. But I really want / need to take advantage of the full > screen resolution. I understand I should set things up to run 915resolution > on boot, to teach the vbios about 1280x800. But I've yet make or find an > xorg.conf that even gives me a display. > > Thanks a lot for any help! > > Thanks, > Ben > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * *********************************************
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